Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-04
COOKERY IN HOyDURAS

COOKERY IN HONDURAS.
'P""es"- -fmcric6n Datstties Witch arouse
'ne admiration Of q Traveller.
regret that did not note the pro-
cesses OF cooking, says Honduras cor
respondent of Good HouseEeeping.
All l can say is that much of the food
was cooked in earthen pots and bowls,
made IN the country hereabout; but
vessels OF copper, brass. or other metal
were also IN use. The good, old-fash-
Toned brick oven, which is so highly
praised and little used in the States,
mere has its counterpart III every
pueblo and larger town. They are
usually conical, having at one side
an opening which one can close by sit
ting with his back against it, as 1 saw
bright girl do one day to hide the
bread inside the oven when we were
riding up to the house. She knew that
II we caught sight of the bread there
would be no good excuse for telling us ::
NADIA, NADIA, senores," when we would
ask if they had anything for us to eat.
Beet, poultry, and other meats are
frequently roasted in pots, but the
conserva of fruits and sugar are cooked
ID metal utensils, as rule. Frijoles
are brought to the table, simmering
hot in q shallow bowl of red earthen-
ware. Whether they are ever served
In any other style I do not know.
Somebody has said that the salon of
the Spanish-American house is large
room IN which the family rest all the
afternoon from the exertion of doing
nothing all the morning. Certainly the
sltting-room of the Honduranian house
OF the better quality is not used in quite
so luxurious a way, for the time from
cate to breakfast seems to be tolerably
well-tilled with duties of an active
nature. At half-past II breakfast re-
unltes the family, and men and boys sit
down together at the table. There
may be families in which the wo-
men of the house sit down
at meat with their lords; indeed,
know of one family in which the pretty
and intelligent mistress eats with her
husband and his guests--but he is q
Michigan man, who married a descend
ant OF one of the ancient families Of
blanche, and is settled in prosperous
content on fine cattle estate, spending
his time most agreeably in teaching his
wife to talk English and live in Ameri-
can ways and in counting the increase
OF his herds. Ordinarily breakfast in
the house of my Tegucigalpa friend con-
sists of soup and two or three courses of
meat, with cabbage, yams, squashes, or
other vegetables. Then comes frijoles
the delicious red beans of the
country, the like of which is not known
to the benighted beings who think
Boston baked beans are good. There
are beans and beans; but none other
can compare with frijoles, served blaz-
ing hot as Honduranians serve them.
After the frijoles, cakes, Or conserva of
oranges, pineapple, lemons, and, per-
haps, lime added to lend an edge, all
stewed- together with sugar; or there
may be jelly of guava or other native
fruits, or little candy kisses, or pastry
rolled thin as wafer and doubled over
like diminutive turnover, with little
lump of sugar between the lids. When
baked the upper crust puffs up, and the
whole breaks and melts away on the
tongue in way that i. to hungry man
most suggestive Of eating fog or of slow
starvation. Then comes ripe bananas
and other fruits and coffee.
A LEGEND OF MONKEYS IND STONES.
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